The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work
- Publication date
- 2019
- Topics
- Power resources -- Economic aspects -- History, Power resources -- Political aspects -- History, Energy consumption -- History, Power resources -- History, Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects, Energy policy, Energy industries, Energy consumption, Energy consumption -- Environmental aspects, Energy industries, Energy policy, Power resources, Power resources -- Economic aspects, Power resources -- Political aspects, Politische Wissenschaft, Imperialismus, Energiepolitik, Thermodynamik, Technischer Fortschritt, Rassismus
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press
- Collection
- dukeuniversitydukepress; duldiversity; duke_libraries; americana
- Contributor
- Duke University Press
- Language
- English
- Rights
- "Publication of this open monograph was the result of Virginia Tech's participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. TOME aims to expand the reach of long-form humanities and social science scholarship including digital scholarship. Additionally, the program looks to ensure the sustainability of university press monograph publishing by supporting the highest quality scholarship and promoting a new ecology of scholarly publishing in which authors' institutions bear the publication costs. Funding from Virginia Tech made it possible to open this publication to the world. www.openmonographs.org "
- Item Size
- 465.2M
x, 268 pages : 23 cm
"In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work--most notably, the veneration of waged work--will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled"---- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
Putting the world to work -- The birth of energy -- The novelty of energy -- A steampunk production -- A geo-theology of energy -- Work becomes energetic -- Energy, race, and empire -- Energopolitics -- The imperial organism at work -- Education for empire -- A post-work energy politics
"In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. These early resource-based concepts of power first emerged during the Industrial Revolution and were tightly bound to Western capitalist domination and the politics of industrialized work. As Daggett shows, thermodynamics was deployed as an imperial science to govern fossil fuel use, labor, and colonial expansion, in part through a hierarchical ordering of humans and nonhumans. By systematically excavating the historical connection between energy and work, Daggett argues that only by transforming the politics of work--most notably, the veneration of waged work--will we be able to confront the Anthropocene's energy problem. Substituting one source of energy for another will not ensure a habitable planet; rather, the concepts of energy and work themselves must be decoupled"---- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index
Putting the world to work -- The birth of energy -- The novelty of energy -- A steampunk production -- A geo-theology of energy -- Work becomes energetic -- Energy, race, and empire -- Energopolitics -- The imperial organism at work -- Education for empire -- A post-work energy politics
- Addeddate
- 2019-10-10 17:22:35
- Bookplateleaf
- 0002
- Call number
- HD 9502 .A2 D344 2019
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- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
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urn:oclc:record:1153038759
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- 0
- Identifier
- birthofenergyfos00dagg
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- ark:/13960/t6f26xb3j
- Identifier-bib
- 009156196
- Invoice
- 41
- Isbn
-
9781478005018
1478005017
9781478006329
1478006323 - Lccn
- 2019009526
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- OL20229864W
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- Pages
- 292
- Ppi
- 300
- Republisher_date
- 20191011101424
- Republisher_operator
- associate-melanie-zapata@archive.org
- Republisher_time
- 382
- Scandate
- 20191010184235
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- durham
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- 2.1-final-2-gcbbe5f4
- Year
- 2019
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